Political fight over GOP election bills intensifies in Texas with economic effects debated Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman © Lindell, Chuck Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, speaking Tuesday at a Capitol news conference, denounced opponents of GOP election bills.
The political fight over Republican election bills intensified Tuesday as Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick summoned reporters to the Capitol to angrily denounce business leaders and others who oppose the legislation, saying they are spewing lies by accusing the GOP of a racist effort to suppress voting rights.
At the same moment, Democrats and civil rights groups were holding their own news conference to unveil a concerted effort to pressure leading businesses to denounce the GOP bills as a travesty for democracy, following the lead of similar statements from Dell Technologies and American Airlines.
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On March 25, the day President Joe Biden held his first press conference and called bids by Republican state legislators to complicate voting un-American, Georgia s legislature passed, and its Republican governor signed, 2021 s most aggressive rewrite of voting rules. That same day in Texas state legislature, a hearing was abruptly halted on a bill with arguably even more obstructive and punitive provisions before the chairs of its Black and Mexican American legislative caucuses were
The Texas bill s author and Texas House Elections Committee chair, Rep. Briscoe Cain, a Houston-area Republican, apparently made a procedural mistake the kind of technicality contained in his bill that would criminalize election officials, poll workers or neighbors who did not precisely follow the bill s new restrictions for absentee voting and its expanded rights for political party observers. The bill barred election officials from removing intentionally unruly